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British Honduras. British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964, then a self-governing colony, renamed Belize in June 1973, [2] until September 1981, when it gained full independence as Belize.
Nicaragua. Honduras. The Mosquito Coast (also known as the Mosquitia or Mosquito Shore) is an area along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras. It was named after the local Miskito Nation and was long dominated by British interests and known as the Mosquito Kingdom. From 1860 suzerainty of the area was transferred to Nicaragua ...
The British Overseas Territories ... in Africa in 1980 and British Honduras (now Belize) ... Four air bases were located in Bermuda during the Second World War ...
The middle star represents Honduras, located in the center of the Central American Union. The coat of arms was established in 1945. It is an equilateral triangle, at the base is a volcano between three castles, over which is a rainbow and the sun shining. The triangle is placed on an area that symbolizes being bathed by both seas.
British West Indies in 1900 BWI in red and pink (blue islands are other territories with English as an official language). The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and ...
Governors of British Honduras (1884–1973) In 1884, the colony was severed from its dependency to Jamaica and gained its own Governor. Sir Roger Tuckfield Goldsworthy, 1884–1891. Sir Cornelius Alfred Moloney, 1891–1897. Sir David Wilson, 1897–1904. Sir Ernest Bickham Sweet-Escott, 15 April 1904 – 1906.
The first mining centers were located near the Guatemalan border, ... The diplomatic history of British Honduras, 1638-1901 (Oxford UP, 1961). online;
The Bay Islands consist of eight islands and 53 small cays lying 15 kilometres (10 mi) to 60 kilometres (40 mi) off the northern coast of Honduras. These islands have been administered as a department of the Republic of Honduras since 1872. [4] Located on the Caribbean Sea, not far east of the entrance to the Gulf of Honduras, they are clearly ...